What is Digital Storytelling?

According to Wikipedia,
"Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity.
The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games).
As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling

More About Digital Storytelling

• Center for Digital Storytelling
• Top Ten Reasons for Digital Storytelling
• The Photography Channel: Cinematic Storytelling for the Modern Media

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Elements of digital storytelling

From Storycenter.org

1. Point of View
2. Dramatic Question
3. Emotional Content
4. Your Voice
5. Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing

Process of Digital Storytelling

In the classroom:

1. Write
2. Revise
3. Storyboard
   1. http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/Storyboard.pdf
   2. Storyboard generator: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/storyboard/
   3. http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/storyboard.pdf

In computer lab, classroom computer, or at home

1. Obtain resources (images, audio clips, etc.)
2. Create the digital story
   Add images, text, audio clips, & video
3. Share (in class or on the web)

Copyright Issues with Digital Media

• My Diigo Links on Copyright
• My Diigo Links on Fair Use
• My Diigo Links on Creative Commons

Connection to the standards

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
• Digital Storytelling for the Science Classroom

Classroom Management & Integration

• Digital Storytelling Lesson Plan
• A Practical Classroom Management Strategy
• Video Production for Students
• Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Evaluating Digital Stories

• Sample rubrics http://techteachers.com/digstory/gradclass/rubrics.htm
• Developing Assessments http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/assessment.cfm

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Tools for Creating Digital Stories

• Video
  • iMovie
    • iMovie 08
      • Apple Manual: iMovie '08 Getting Started
      • Video Tutorials http://eg-www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/ilife08.html
      • Exhaustive Tutorial for iMovie
      • iMovie '08 Quick Shortcuts
    • iMovie 09
      • Apple Tutorials http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
      • Apple Support http://eg-www.apple.com/support/imovie/
  • Windows Moviemaker
    • Creating and Sharing Great Movies http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/create/default.mspx
• Audio
  • Garageband
  • Audacity
• Images
  • iPhoto
  • Picassa (Google)

Overview of the Flip Video Camera

More About Your Flip

• http://www.theflip.com/en-us/Products/ultra.aspx

Flip Mino Cam 3rd Gen
Saving Files to Your Computer

1. Plug your Flip camera into a USB port
2. Allow the software to download onto your Mac
3. Select the videos you want to save, then choose "Save to Computer"

Sources for Images & Audio

• Bernie Dodge's Site http://webquest.org/freemedia.htm
• Compfight (Uses Flickr Creative Commons Images)
• Image Appropriate Sites (Google Custom Search Engine created by Ken Shelton)
• Search Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
• KITZU.com http://www.kitzu.com/
  Standards-aligned packages of media that are content specific. Free resource from the Orange County Department of Education.

Miscellaneous Resources

Great presentation by Hall Davidson on using the Flip Camera (Powerpoint)